check out my new baby

haha. gotcha! Not THAT new baby. Rory finally made good on his Mother’s Day promise to buy me a serger. Yahoo! (Although he did get his Father’s Day present-a jigsaw-before I got my Mother’s Day present….hmmm….)

So, I am now the proud new owner of a Brother serger. Well, it’s not exactly HERE yet, but will be soon. Hopefully I have some time to figure it out and use it a bit before the real baby comes. Does anyone have any serger advice? On this model in particular, perhaps? I’ve used them before, my mom has one, but I’ve never threaded one. I’ll have to convince her to show me how to use it. Although Rory’s pretty good with machines, so maybe I’ll make him read/memorize the manual as well. You don’t mind, right hun?

Comments

Congrats! I have that serger and love it. Really easy to use. Have fun with it! Oh, I recently posted about how to ruffle using the serger and plan to post more about my serger experiments if that helps you any.

Congrats! Sergers are the best! You will have so much fun, don’t be intimidated and just be ready to spend some extra time threading it. The giant tweazers are my best friend when threading my serger-use them! Oh, and make sure Rory and his new jigsaw have seen knock-offwood. Oh, the projects to do…

Haha that is what I got for mothers day too! Only a singer brand. It came threaded and I made my husband figure out how to rethread it. He told me the next time I am close to running out tie a very small knot with the old thread onto the new one and run it through when there isn’t fabric in the machine. Does that make any sense?? That way you don’t have to rethread it the hard way!

I have the same serger and LOVE it – I just keep the booklet in my drawer for quick and easy reference. And I second the comment about tying the knot and running it through. That’s a great solution until you get up your confidence to do it on your own – it’s not that hard. You can do it!!